September, 2016

TISA, TTIP and TPP continue to be negotiated in secret, as WikiLeaks recently released a new leak from the updated TISA (Trade in Services Agreement) core text and annexes. If you want to know what TISA means in 7 words, it’s this: total privatization and commodification of public services. Unfortunately, once something is privatized, it becomes very difficult to ever get it back into the public hands. Of the 3 T-Treaties, TISARead More

Queen Elizabeth II is one of the top beneficiaries in the United Kingdom of farming subsidies. A Saudi Arabian billionaire is among those handed hundreds of thousands of pounds every year in farm subsidies at the expense of taxpayers. At least one in five of the top 100 recipients of CAP subsidies were farms owned or controlled by members of aristocratic families, a Greenpeace investigation found. At least one inRead More

You may remember a while back there was a spate of news articles about high-level bankers and bank employees committing suicide. Conspiracy theories were coming left and right, and then as suddenly as the reports started they stopped – just like that. Here is a list of more than 50 of these bankers, in date order, with a brief overview on each of them. You probably also remember that last year,Read More

It appears that James Comey did not recommend federal charges against Hillary Clinton, in part because he is connected to the Clinton Foundation through the Swiss bank HSBC. More than 200 republicans sent a letter demanding to know why he didn’t recommend federal charges against Hillary Clinton over her use of private email servers. Clinton “clearly placed our nation’s secrets in peril,” the letter states. “No one is above theRead More

The Empire Files: How Palestine Became Colonized Giving critical historical context the occupation today, this timeline explores the creation of the state of Israel and how it came to cover so much land since. From the early settlements, to the Nakba, to it’s conquest of the West Bank, Abby Martin reveals the brutally honest root of what is behind the so-called “Israel-Palestine conflict.” .

Saudi Arabia and its allies could retaliate against US legislation allowing the kingdom to be sued for the 9/11 attacks, including scaling back investment in the US economy or restricting access to important regional air bases, experts claim. “This should be clear to America and to the rest of the world. When one Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) state is targeted unfairly, the others stand around it,” Abdulkhaleq Abdullah, a professor ofRead More

As the findings of the Dutch “investigation” are released today, we present the concluding part of MH17 Inquiry’s video series. With the investigation and examination of the physical evidence concluded, the sixth and final part of MH17 Inquiry sums up their findings, and asks the key question: Who stands to gain from the MH17 disaster, and Donbass war in general? .

A medical researcher in Sweden has begun attempting to edit the genes of developing human embryos – a move which could lead to the eventual engineering of “designer babies,” and one which is likely to stir serious debate regarding the ethics and safety of such experimentation. Fredrik Lanner at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm is the first known scientist to break what has long been considered a taboo – theRead More

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Apple may have been paying lip service when it frequently assured its customers of its commitment to privacy, including denying the FBI the ability to hack into an iPhone. Turns out Apple logs the location of iMessage and shares information with police. For iPhone users, there’s a world of difference between a text message sent in a green bubble and another sent in a blue one. Green means that aRead More

A HUGE solar storm is heading towards Earth which could leave us without mobile phones, satellite TV and even electricity. Modern-day Britain could go into meltdown after scientists forecast the solar storm to hit between now and Friday which could wreak havoc with technology. Solar storms affect Earth’s technology as radiation is thrown at the planet from the Sun. While humans are protected from the radiation by the atmosphere, theRead More

Social networking giant Facebook has been ordered by German authorities to stop collecting and storing data from WhatsApp after users claimed their digital privacy was at risk. The privacy regulator also ruled that the data that has already been forwarded should be deleted. The pushback comes after the messaging app announced last month it would share some users’ personal information, such as phone numbers and analytics data, with parent companyRead More

Democrats attempt to link Roger Stone to Russian government FBI Director James Comey was asked repeatedly Wednesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing if investigators were looking into political commentator Roger Stone over alleged ties to WikiLeaks. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), who claimed the issue “may pose a current national security threat to the United States,” started his inquiry by referencing an August 30 letter in which ranking members ofRead More

U.S. on the Verge of War With Russia Over Syria Time Bomb The Obama White House is helping ISIS by bombing Syrian troops The U.S. is helping ISIS and moving closer to war with Russia. Why is the Obama administration ordering the bombing of Syrian troops who are fighting the Islamic State?

Oscar winners, sports stars and Bill Gates are building lavish bunkers — with amenities ranging from a swimming pool to a bowling alley — as global anxiety fuels sales and owners “could be the next Adam and Eve.” iven the increased frequency of terrorist bombings and mass shootings and an under-lying sense of havoc fed by divisive election politics, it’s no surprise that home security is going over the topRead More

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Denver, CO–Rite Greens Pot Shop is back in the news after the shop announced a “Register to Smoke” campaign that rewards those who register within the shop to receive a free 1/8 of marijuana (street value approx. $60). Store owner JC Franco had this to say to Denver’s 9News: “In conjunction with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), Rite Greens Pot Shop has instituted a program to reward thoseRead More

Scratching one’s face is one of the oldest signals in the book Video analysis of the debate shows Hillary Clinton “giving hand signals” to Lester Holt to indicate she wants to respond to something Donald Trump said with a zinger. According to a viral video titled, “Signaled and Triggered #RiggedDebate,” which was shared yesterday on YouTube, Hillary was signalling Holt to cut to her by subtly scratching her face. ScratchingRead More

Exorcists are in urgent demand as a result of a sharp rise in people dabbling in Satanism and the occult, experts from the Catholic Church in Italy and the US said. Speaking in tongues, levitating and vomiting nails may seem far-fetched to most people, but church experts insist there is a need to recruit more priests as exorcists in order to combat sorcery and black magic. Valter Cascioli, a psychologist and scientific consultantRead More

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